sb. pl. Sc. [? corruption of ACCESS.] ? Hysterics.
1816. Scott, Antiq., xxxv. ‘Jenny Rintherout has ta’en the exies, and done naething but laugh and greet.’ Ibid. (1818), Br. Lamm., xi. ‘The cook-maid in the trembling exies.’
sb. pl. Sc. [? corruption of ACCESS.] ? Hysterics.
1816. Scott, Antiq., xxxv. ‘Jenny Rintherout has ta’en the exies, and done naething but laugh and greet.’ Ibid. (1818), Br. Lamm., xi. ‘The cook-maid in the trembling exies.’
